James TindallNov 26, 2024

This post from @pluralistic
is honestly up there with his concept of enshitification in the degree to which it explains so much of the shitshow.

It implies a compelling argument against great inequity. Namely that great wealth creates a bubble of affordance that insulates the rich from discerning the immediate consequences of incorrect or damaging notions or actions so delaying recognition of errors and the need to alter course.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/113548449727704405

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Show threadJames TindallNov 27, 2024
@pluralistic @a_cubed @Axomamma @MattMerk
Thinking some more about the bubbles of delusion that envelope concentrations of capital and the attraction force they exert upon those without (capital). A significant factor here, especially in an attention economy and society of control whose labidinal flows are directed by the Advertising Industrial Complex, is concentrations of capital also have the power to distort the infosphere by overwhelming sense (of their failures) with a mirage of success.
Show threadJames TindallNov 27, 2024
@pluralistic @a_cubed @Axomamma @MattMerk In other words, it's perhaps not just that concentrations of capital deaden the error correction feedback, in an insulating, passive way, to those on the inside, but also operates to actively distract, obfuscate and generally prevent the perception of any failures within the concentration of capital by those without.
Show threadDr Andrew A. Adams #FBPE 🔶Nov 27, 2024
@atomless @pluralistic @Axomamma @MattMerk
Too big to fail, too rich to jail.
Show threadJames Tindall

@a_cubed @pluralistic @Axomamma @MattMerk

For sure.

And in order to secure such impunity capital must keep the workers divided and distracted, through Pharmakon, the simultaneous supply of poison and antidote, disease and cure, creating a world of destruction, hopelessness and despair while constructing dopamine, analgesic and narcotic Escape Space ever more exquisitely fine tuned to our individual cognitive attack surface.

Nov 27, 2024 at 11:48amWeb